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rub out verb- to kill someone US, 1848
- You’re scared right now I’m gonna rub you out. — Marvin Wald and Albert Maltz, The Naked City, 1947
- The Hook was killed and Tony Indelicato was taken for a ride and rubbed out. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 19, 1950
- Ribler had been “quietly rubbed out to prevent his testifying against the Hotsy Totsy Club murderers.” — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 13, 1956
- Boots thinks you’re an all right guy–he don’t want you completely rubbed out. — Clarence Cooper Jr, Black, p. 279, 1963
- You’d be committing a grave error if you tried to rub us out. — Troy Kennedy Martin, The Italian Job [uncut script], 1969
- Now he had to explain this to a jury of bank tellers and housewives who had sat through four weeks of lurid testimony from the likes of exotic dancer and former Ladd girlfriend “Angel Dust,” and ex-cons who talked about rubbing people out by hammering pencils into their ears. — Kim Rich, Johnny’s Girl, p. 235, 1993
- to disqualify a competitor AUSTRALIA, 1902
- RUB OUT–To disqualify. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- [B]oth horse and connections were disqualified. Being “rubbed out” was not as serious as it appeared. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 176, 1982
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